eBook - Interwoven Possibilities - Designing with Bamboo Mats
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Interwoven Possibilities guides you through the two distinct design examples made using widely available woven bamboo steaming mats, from conception to completion, while also being a study in the design principles and floristic methods encountered on the way.
The versatility of the design styles covered will have you soon adapting them to your own tastes, requirements and available materials.
Over twenty-seven well illustrated pages, veteran designer and teacher Mark Pampling guides us through not just how-to, but the reasoning behind the design decisions made along the way.
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This lesson using bamboo steamer mats gives 2 creative ideas using kitchen equipment. The list of materials required is comprehensive, yet it is easy to see where individuals can use substitutes according to their geographical area.
Instructions throughout are clear, detailed, but at the same time concise, making them easy to follow. The photography showing placements were excellent, although I would have liked one showing more of the original drilling for the first design. The photo for the second design was more helpful to me.
In the notes to the first design, Mark says "the greater the number of binds, the greater the structural integrity of the foundation" is worth highlighting. Not having enough binds is a fault many beginners would have.
The notes for the second design give excellent information on binding the top dowels into some triangles and reasons why this is done, especially the highlighted photo of the main structural triangle.
This ebook lesson is well worth having.
In both designs, the photos of side angles are very helpful